abuse; ill-treatment; maltreatment; mistreatment; cruelty
to protect (someone); to look after (e.g. an injured leg); to defend; to cover for; to stand up for; to stick up for
to talk on and on; to rattle on; to keep on talking (without pause)
to till; to plow; to plough; to cultivate
cattle (Bos taurus); cow; beef; Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
virtue; charm; merit; good point
particularly; only; in the case of
distinction; differentiation; discrimination; discrimination (against people)
to keep away; to keep at a distance
cannot be helped; unavoidable; pointless; useless; hopeless (person); annoying
regarding as dangerous; identifying as a threat
astonished; shocked; amazed; astounded; aghast
careful observation; close attention
stiffening; rigidity; rigor; stiffness; ossification; petrification
to get (a joke or explanation); to strike home; to click; to know intuitively
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
to understand; to make out
to dry up; to parch; to ebb away
hair (on the head); tresses; locks
nod deeply; glugging; drinking deeply
confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
being in abstraction; being dazed; being absentminded; stargazing
to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate; to exclude; to except
descendant; posterity; offspring
probability; likelihood; chances
example; illustration; precedent
nothing but; none other than
to vanish gradually (e.g. of a voice); to trail off; to die away; to feel one's soul leaving one's body (from embarrassment, grief, etc.); to feel faint; to feel numb
to become old enough to understand what's going on around oneself (of a child, etc.); to reach the age of discretion